See also
| Husband: | Edward PETTIT (1773- ) | |
| Wife: | Elizabeth MAY ( -1861) | |
| Children: | Edward PETTIT (1807-1856) | |
| Sarah Wilkins PETTIT (1809- ) | ||
| Marriage | 12 Nov 1805 | Folkestone, Kent |
| Name: | Edward PETTIT | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Father: | Thomas PETTIT (1750- ) | |
| Mother: | Sarah WILKINS (bur.1815) | |
| Birth | 24 Feb 1773 | Folkestone |
| Name: | Elizabeth MAY | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Father: | - | |
| Mother: | - | |
| Death | Jan 1861 | Folkestone |
| Name: | Edward PETTIT | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Spouse: | Sarah SPEARPOINT (1804-1864) | |
| Birth | 11 Jan 1807 | St Charles the Martyr, Plymouth |
| Death | 13 Jan 1856 (age 49) | Folkestone |
| Name: | Sarah Wilkins PETTIT | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Birth | 22 Dec 1809 | |
1. Edward was a widower at the time of his marriage to Elizabeth May. I have searched through many of the non-IGI parishes surrounding Folkestone for a record of the first marriage, without success. The only possibility found so far is the marriage of an Edward Pettit to Mary Lee in Davington (near Faversham) on December 6, 1797. There are no other Pettit records on the IGI in Davington around this time.
2. There is a naval service record for an Edward Pettit of about the right age throughout the Napoleonic war. This would give a good reason for him to be in Plymouth at the time of the birth of his son Edward. But there is no record of his first marriage in the Devon FHS's index of marriages.
1. There is an Elizabeth Pettit aged 65 living in Radnor Street in the 1841 census. (Slightly surprisingly, she is the only Pettit in Folkestone at the time, apart from an Ann Pettit aged 15, a pupil at the Parade House Academy. Part of the answer seems to be that Edward Pettit, the coastguard, had moved with all his family to Lydd at that time.]
2. There is an Elizabeth Pettit of Radnor Street, Folkestone who died in 1861 aged 85. This could be her, but it would make her aged 31 at the time of her marriage, which is a little old. There are candidates of a suitable age for this Elizabeth May born 1775 or 1776 in Folkestone.
3. Rita Pettit tells me that the East Kent Archives hold the records of some Folkestone Undertakers called Dunk. These say that Elizabeth May died in January 1861 and that her burial cost £2 19s 6d.
4. In the Post Office Directory of 1852 there is a Mrs Elizabeth Pettit of Radnor Street, who is a Marine store dealer. Is this her ?
5. The curiosity is that she doesn't seem to make an appearance in the 1851 census for Folkestone. Yolande Dunn has done a search, and there is also a card index in the Folkestone Library. Neither have found her.